Re: [Marxism] Karl Marx plays the stock market

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> (Actually, there is a far more interesting bit of business about Marx as
> investor that Francis Wheen uncovered. I include it beneath the BBC
> article.)
>
> BBC News, Monday, 29 November, 2004, 11:24 GMT
> Karl Marx's smoking gun

<snip>
> He initially followed in his father's footsteps and studied law in Bonn
> and Berlin, where he met his future wife, the aristocrat's daughter
> Jenny von Westphalen.
This doesn't bode well for teh accuracy of teh article. Jenny von
Westphalen's father was a neighbour of the Marx family in Trier and
acted as a sort of mentor for the young Karl. Jenny and Karl knew each
other long before Karl went to Berlin - I believe they were even engaged
before he went there.

I agree that the Wheen stuff is much more interesting.

Einde O'Callaghan


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